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Air Traffic Control

• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #56
  Topics include: controversy over implementing NextGen ATC; FAA safety culture under attack; commercialized ANSPs; getting aircraft owners to equip for NextGen; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2008
• Want the Latest on Airport Privatization and Air Traffic Control Reform?
  Leonard Gilroy
  August 27, 2008, 5:33pm
• Air Traffic Computer Woes and Long Travel Delays
  Robert Poole
  August 26, 2008, 11:41am
• Air Traffic Controllers - Too Many or Too Few?
  Robert Poole
  August 21, 2008, 8:22am
• Sen. Schumer Wants to Protect Airlines From Competition
  Robert Poole
  August 17, 2008, 1:32pm
• Air Transport Association Sues Over Newark Auction
  Robert Poole
  August 10, 2008, 12:59pm
• Newark Runway Slot Auction a Step in the Right Direction
  Robert Poole
  August 6, 2008, 9:11am
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #55
  Topics include: separating safety regulation from ATC operations; re-regulation the wrong approach to airline crisis; ADS-B: from Capstone to what?; controllers and NextGen; affluent suburbanites vs. airspace redesign; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #54
  Topics include: controller training and adequate ATC staffing; some progress on Single European Sky; DayJet to pioneer NextGen operations; populist attack on business jets; progress at Flight Service Stations; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2008
• Leasing Chicago's Midway Airport
  Robert Poole
  May 8, 2008, 9:55am
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #52
  Topics include: the no-reform FAA reauthorization; U.S. vs. Europe on ATC modernization; FAA "re-baselining," continued; synthetic vision--a key to capacity expansion; controllers' role in NextGen; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2008
• Planes Barely Avoid Mid-Air Collision
  Robert Poole
  March 6, 2008, 7:53am
• New Reason Study: How to Reduce Air Travel Delays
  Chris Mitchell
  March 5, 2008, 12:59pm
• Increasing Airport Capacity Without Increasing Airport Size
  Policy Study 368
  Viggo Butler
  March 4, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #51
  Topics include: concerns over FAA's plan for ADS-B; Inspector General on general aviation's ATC usage; the staffed "virtual tower"; controller hiring
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #50
  Topics include: FAA budget woes-again; the $25 modernization surcharge; a GPS backup plan; environmental benefits of ATC reform; runway capacity and ATC modernization; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #49
  Topics include: an economist's approach to ATC reform; fixing runway incursions; world's best ATC providers; implementation failure--a warning for NextGen; misrepresenting air traffic delays; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #48
  Topics include: blaming weather for ATC delays; controller salaries; business jets expanding in user-fee countries; faster implementation of ADS-B; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2007
• With Travel Delays Worsening, Top Experts Call for Dramatic Air Traffic Changes
  Coalition warns status quo will lead to rationing airspace
  September 19, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #47
  Topics include: aviation elder statesmen call for fundamental ATC reforms; business/personal jets and ATC congestion; backup for GPS getting closer; airlines' strange new funding proposal; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2007
• WSJ: Gridlock in the Air
  Geoffrey Segal
  July 20, 2007, 7:16am
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #46
  Topics include: House version of FAA reauthorization; paying for ATC services; Congress blocking facility consolidation; user fees and Europe's bizjet boom; rationing airspace has begun; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #45
  Topics include: three keys to ATC reform; a funding crunch or not?; cost of billing (a huge new bureaucracy?); governance-the real issue; why we need arms-length safety regulation; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #44
  Topics include: Senate FAA reauthorization bill; cracks in the general aviation anti-reform monolith?; glitches in flight service modernization; breaking the mold on controller training?; moving NextGen from concept to implementation; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #43
  Topics include: governance reform; responsibility for controller fatique; alternatives for ADS-B; FAA outsources RNP development; overflight fees; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2007
• The Urgent Need to Reform the FAA's Air Traffic Control System
  Policy Study 358
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #42
  Topics include: responding to user fee critics; the need for real bonding for ATC Modernization; commercialization vs. privatization of ATC; what a Russ Chew is really worth; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #41
  Topics include: FAA's funding proposal; a "manufactured" funding crisis?; the controller retirement problem; the departure of Russ Chew; boom times for European business aviation; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #40
  Topics include: the urgency of ATC reform; ATC funding challenges; yet another "controller shortage;" progress on aviation weather; sequenced landings; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2007
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #39
  Topics include: Nav Canada's 10th anniversary; financing the NextGen ATC system; clear thinking on ATC User Fees; beefing up the controller workforce; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #38
  Topics include: mixed messages on funding Next-Generation system; contract towers' dramatic safety record; lessons from the D.C. airports restructuring; a cost-effective backup for GPS-based navigation; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #37
  Topics include: lessons from Lexington, ATC reform lessons from Canada & U.K.; runway incursions and operational errors; far off benefits from ADS-B; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2006
• Time to Rethink Airport Security
  Ted Balaker
  August 9, 2006, 10:39am
• Business Jets and ATC User Fees
  Taking a Closer Look
  Robert Poole
  August 1, 2006
• Study: Business Jets Should Reconsider Air Traffic Control User Fees
  Some user fee scenarios would reduce costs for many business jet operations, pave way for massive capacity improvements
  July 28, 2006
• The Smoky Skies
  Ted Balaker
  July 11, 2006, 10:27am
• Solving Airspace Gridlock
  Business jets would benefit from user-fee based air traffic control system
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #36
  Topics include: benefits of ATC reform, user fees for business aviation; the Mineta Commission report, ten years later; System Wide Information Management; and ATC privatization advances in Europe.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #35
  Topics include: ATC overload likely result of growth in very light jets; "base closing commission needed for ATC; speeding up RNP routes; the ATC funding crunch; and NATCA's losing contract battle.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2006
• Private Space Flight Keeps on Moving and Shaking
  Ted Balaker
  May 31, 2006, 1:49pm
• Private Space Travel Possible if only Government Would Get Out of the Way
  Adam Summers
  May 8, 2006, 9:08pm
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #34
  Topics include: NATCA's contract gamble backfires; paying for the next generation ATC system; getting control of controllers' schedules; and business aviation prospering despite higher costs.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #33
  Topics include: Congress vs. ATC facility consolidation; the promise of "green landings;" Congress and the controllers' contract; and ADS-B for everyone?
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2006
• "It's like an upside-down bungee jump"
  Ted Balaker
  March 18, 2006, 7:58pm
• Airport Privatization Proceeds in India
  Leonard Gilroy
  February 6, 2006, 5:24am
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #32
  Topics include: new study on ATC commercialization; revenue bonds for ATC modernization; facing facts on ATC facilities; and changing the rules on labor negotiations.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #31
  Topics include: NATCA's critique of ATC user fees; real progress on terminal-area capacity; thoughts on controller contract negotiations; and ATC commercialization's impact on Canadian bizjet sales.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2006
• Space X Launch Today @ 11am PST
  Ted Balaker
  December 18, 2005, 9:46am
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #30
  Topics include: preconditions for implementing NGATS; the Cost of collecting user fees; GPS navigation going nationwide; more on out-of-control facilities; and next-generation controllers.
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2005
• Air Traffic Safety Intact
  New flight services stations will save $190 million per year
  Geoffrey Segal
  October 21, 2005

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